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On the season finale of Top Chef 3, Casey Thompson, Dale Levitski, and Hung Huynh faced their final challenge. At the world famous Aspen Mountain Club, the chefs were challenged to cook their best three course meals. In a twist, the chefs had to prepare their dishes in the same kitchen.

Michelle Bernstein, Rocco DiSpirito and Todd English make special guest appearances to serve as sous chefs for the contestants. Todd assisted Dale, Michelle assisted Casey, and Rocco assisted Hung.

To add some additional pressure, head judge Tom Colicchio told the chefs that they had to prepare an additional fourth course. To help the chefs, former contestants CJ, Howie, and Sara returned. CJ helped Dale, Howie helped Casey, and Sara helped Hung.

The Top Chef finale dinner was served to the judges, the sous chefs, and former Top Chef contestant Brian Malarkey. After the meal, the three finalists received feedback from the judges. The judges agreed that two courses went to Hung and two courses went to Dale.

At the live part of the finale, Casey, Dale, and Hung joined host Padma Lakshmi and the judges in Chicago. Padma Lakshmi announced that the winner of Top Chef 3 was Hung Huynh. Hung said "I'm so excited. I worked so hard to get here and to prove myself and to have so much support from America. I'm speechless."
Maybe the folks at Top Chef were concerned that people would find out the winner before the end of the show. Who knows? Anyway, for tonight's finale, the cooking all happened a while ago, but the reveal of the winner will happen live in Chicago.

Final three Casey, Dale and Hung get their breakfast, and it comes with the instruction to take an Aspen ski lift to this mountaintop to get the info on their final challenge, which is at the Aspen Mountain Club.

Tom Colicchio tells them their final challenge is to cook "the best meal you've ever cooked in your life." But they will be cooking in the same kitchen and serving together instead of going one at a time as in past seasons.

Hung's three-course plan is Hamachi, a Vietnamese fusion dish with prawns and duck. Casey's is foie gras, giant prawns and pork belly. Dale's is foie gras, lobster and Colorado lamb. They draw knives for sous chef -- Hung gets Rocco DiSpirito (wait, WHAT?), Casey gets Michelle Bernstein and Dale gets Todd English. Yeah, so that's a twist. The sous chefs get to help out for three hours of prep for the first day, but not the second day.

Michelle's not sure about Casey's pork belly course, but she can't tell her that, so she tells the camera instead. She goes on, "I'm a little bit of a minimalist, so every time she adds, I want to subtract."

Todd is also worried that Dale's menu might be too complex, and then they all start to realize that the attitude is wreaking havoc on their menus -- getting a boil is nearly impossible.

Rocco also says he is not totally sure what Hung is doing with everything.

Then all the celebrity chefs start saying nice things about the contestants to the camera as time runs out.

The next day, the chefs are on their own, no celebs, no sous.

Hung creates his own area in the back with camp stoves, and he says when the judges told him his food had no soul, it was like "getting hit by a truck."

Tom visits everyone and then takes them out of the kitchen with one more hour left of prep and tells them they want a fourth course. Dale: "I wanted to punch him in the face." They get help from sous chefs Sara, CJ and Howie. Hung gets Sara, Dale gets CJ and Casey gets Howie.

For the unexpected fourth course, Hung has Sara work up a chocolate cake, Casey gets Howie started on a beef dish and Dale and CJ work on a scallop dish.

At the table are the sous chefs, the judges and Brian Malarkey. They all like all of the first course, except the roe on Casey's dish. For the second course, they adore Dale's extra course and are impressed that he came up with it at the last minute. They're a little worried about the lack of acid in Hung's dish. And for Casey, they best they can come up with is that she is really, really trying -- and she used that same roe again. Eep! On the third course, they love the duck by Hung, and they don't love Dale's gnocchi (a word I never knew until this show) or Casey's porkbelly. Final course, they love Dale's lamb and Casey's sirloin and potatoes and are unsure about Hung's chooclate cake, but only in terms of how it fits with the rest of the dishes -- they love the taste.

Then, judges' table. They say the chefs all rose to the challenge and did a great job. And yet, it's time for the nit-picking. Dale hears about his triumphs (especially the surprise course) and his problems and accepts the criticism. Casey, however, gets crazy defensive, and it's not pretty. Hung hears about how they wanted more acid in the first two dishes -- his third: "three-star Michelin." He's excited, but not as much about the indifferent response to his chocolate cake.

First course, they liked Hung's the best. Second course, they say nothing compared to Dale's scallops. For third, Hung's duck is the favorite. Fourth: "Dale's lamb was fabulous," Gail Simmons says. So, as Survivor host Jeff Probst would say, that's two votes for Dale, two votes for Hung.

Looks like we won't have the first woman winning Top Chef this season. (Though 58 percent of viewers who cared enough to pay to text a vote picked Casey.)

Back at the live show, they really do pull a Survivor and make the judges wear the same clothes -- the chefs are in their jackets, of course. And there is a fake set looking like the club in Aspen.

And the winner is: Hung. Well, hey, he's been telling us he was going to win it from the start. I have to say, I'm not shocked. After Casey's meltdown, it was clear that she was out. And Dale stepped it up at the end, but Hung has been consistently good the entire season. So, go him!

NAccording to eonline Hung Huynh who is 29 years was named the winner of the third season of the latest reality TV show Bravo's Top Chef on Wednesday.

Hung won $100,000 to put toward his culinary-minded dreams, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and an epicurean dream tour of the French Alps.

Hung Huynh lives in Las Vegas but he is originally from Vietnam.

Hung's favorite recipe is heirloom tomatoes, with dashes of balsamic vinegar, basil, mint and extra virgin olive oil with an emphasis on virgin.

His profession is Sous Chef, and more specifically a Guy Savoy.

Hung describes himself as athletic, Buddhist, a college graduate, and chef. On the season finale of Top Chef 3, Casey Thompson, Dale Levitski, and Hung Huynh faced their final challenge. At the world famous Aspen Mountain Club, the chefs were challenged to cook their best three course meals. In a twist, the chefs had to prepare their dishes in the same kitchen.

Michelle Bernstein, Rocco DiSpirito and Todd English make special guest appearances to serve as sous chefs for the contestants. Todd assisted Dale, Michelle assisted Casey, and Rocco assisted Hung.

To add some additional pressure, head judge Tom Colicchio told the chefs that they had to prepare an additional fourth course. To help the chefs, former contestants CJ, Howie, and Sara returned. CJ helped Dale, Howie helped Casey, and Sara helped Hung.

The Top Chef finale dinner was served to the judges, the sous chefs, and former Top Chef contestant Brian Malarkey. After the meal, the three finalists received feedback from the judges. The judges agreed that two courses went to Hung and two courses went to Dale.

At the live part of the finale, Casey, Dale, and Hung joined host Padma Lakshmi and the judges in Chicago. Padma Lakshmi announced that the winner of Top Chef 3 was Hung Huynh. Hung said "I'm so excited. I worked so hard to get here and to prove myself and to have so much support from America. I'm speechless."
Maybe the folks at Top Chef were concerned that people would find out the winner before the end of the show. Who knows? Anyway, for tonight's finale, the cooking all happened a while ago, but the reveal of the winner will happen live in Chicago.

Final three Casey, Dale and Hung get their breakfast, and it comes with the instruction to take an Aspen ski lift to this mountaintop to get the info on their final challenge, which is at the Aspen Mountain Club.

Tom Colicchio tells them their final challenge is to cook "the best meal you've ever cooked in your life." But they will be cooking in the same kitchen and serving together instead of going one at a time as in past seasons.

Hung's three-course plan is Hamachi, a Vietnamese fusion dish with prawns and duck. Casey's is foie gras, giant prawns and pork belly. Dale's is foie gras, lobster and Colorado lamb. They draw knives for sous chef -- Hung gets Rocco DiSpirito (wait, WHAT?), Casey gets Michelle Bernstein and Dale gets Todd English. Yeah, so that's a twist. The sous chefs get to help out for three hours of prep for the first day, but not the second day.

Michelle's not sure about Casey's pork belly course, but she can't tell her that, so she tells the camera instead. She goes on, "I'm a little bit of a minimalist, so every time she adds, I want to subtract."

Todd is also worried that Dale's menu might be too complex, and then they all start to realize that the attitude is wreaking havoc on their menus -- getting a boil is nearly impossible.

Rocco also says he is not totally sure what Hung is doing with everything.

Then all the celebrity chefs start saying nice things about the contestants to the camera as time runs out.

The next day, the chefs are on their own, no celebs, no sous.

Hung creates his own area in the back with camp stoves, and he says when the judges told him his food had no soul, it was like "getting hit by a truck."

Tom visits everyone and then takes them out of the kitchen with one more hour left of prep and tells them they want a fourth course. Dale: "I wanted to punch him in the face." They get help from sous chefs Sara, CJ and Howie. Hung gets Sara, Dale gets CJ and Casey gets Howie.

For the unexpected fourth course, Hung has Sara work up a chocolate cake, Casey gets Howie started on a beef dish and Dale and CJ work on a scallop dish.

At the table are the sous chefs, the judges and Brian Malarkey. They all like all of the first course, except the roe on Casey's dish. For the second course, they adore Dale's extra course and are impressed that he came up with it at the last minute. They're a little worried about the lack of acid in Hung's dish. And for Casey, they best they can come up with is that she is really, really trying -- and she used that same roe again. Eep! On the third course, they love the duck by Hung, and they don't love Dale's gnocchi (a word I never knew until this show) or Casey's porkbelly. Final course, they love Dale's lamb and Casey's sirloin and potatoes and are unsure about Hung's chooclate cake, but only in terms of how it fits with the rest of the dishes -- they love the taste.

Then, judges' table. They say the chefs all rose to the challenge and did a great job. And yet, it's time for the nit-picking. Dale hears about his triumphs (especially the surprise course) and his problems and accepts the criticism. Casey, however, gets crazy defensive, and it's not pretty. Hung hears about how they wanted more acid in the first two dishes -- his third: "three-star Michelin." He's excited, but not as much about the indifferent response to his chocolate cake.

First course, they liked Hung's the best. Second course, they say nothing compared to Dale's scallops. For third, Hung's duck is the favorite. Fourth: "Dale's lamb was fabulous," Gail Simmons says. So, as Survivor host Jeff Probst would say, that's two votes for Dale, two votes for Hung.

Looks like we won't have the first woman winning Top Chef this season. (Though 58 percent of viewers who cared enough to pay to text a vote picked Casey.)

Back at the live show, they really do pull a Survivor and make the judges wear the same clothes -- the chefs are in their jackets, of course. And there is a fake set looking like the club in Aspen.

And the winner is: Hung. Well, hey, he's been telling us he was going to win it from the start. I have to say, I'm not shocked. After Casey's meltdown, it was clear that she was out. And Dale stepped it up at the end, but Hung has been consistently good the entire season. So, go him!

NAccording to eonline Hung Huynh who is 29 years was named the winner of the third season of the latest reality TV show Bravo's Top Chef on Wednesday.

Hung won $100,000 to put toward his culinary-minded dreams, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and an epicurean dream tour of the French Alps.

Hung Huynh lives in Las Vegas but he is originally from Vietnam.

Hung's favorite recipe is heirloom tomatoes, with dashes of balsamic vinegar, basil, mint and extra virgin olive oil with an emphasis on virgin.

His profession is Sous Chef, and more specifically a Guy Savoy.

Hung describes himself as athletic, Buddhist, a college graduate, and chef.




On the season finale of Top Chef 3, Casey Thompson, Dale Levitski, and Hung Huynh faced their final challenge. At the world famous Aspen Mountain Club, the chefs were challenged to cook their best three course meals. In a twist, the chefs had to prepare their dishes in the same kitchen.

Michelle Bernstein, Rocco DiSpirito and Todd English make special guest appearances to serve as sous chefs for the contestants. Todd assisted Dale, Michelle assisted Casey, and Rocco assisted Hung.

To add some additional pressure, head judge Tom Colicchio told the chefs that they had to prepare an additional fourth course. To help the chefs, former contestants CJ, Howie, and Sara returned. CJ helped Dale, Howie helped Casey, and Sara helped Hung.

The Top Chef finale dinner was served to the judges, the sous chefs, and former Top Chef contestant Brian Malarkey. After the meal, the three finalists received feedback from the judges. The judges agreed that two courses went to Hung and two courses went to Dale.

At the live part of the finale, Casey, Dale, and Hung joined host Padma Lakshmi and the judges in Chicago. Padma Lakshmi announced that the winner of Top Chef 3 was Hung Huynh. Hung said "I'm so excited. I worked so hard to get here and to prove myself and to have so much support from America. I'm speechless."
Maybe the folks at Top Chef were concerned that people would find out the winner before the end of the show. Who knows? Anyway, for tonight's finale, the cooking all happened a while ago, but the reveal of the winner will happen live in Chicago.

Final three Casey, Dale and Hung get their breakfast, and it comes with the instruction to take an Aspen ski lift to this mountaintop to get the info on their final challenge, which is at the Aspen Mountain Club.

Tom Colicchio tells them their final challenge is to cook "the best meal you've ever cooked in your life." But they will be cooking in the same kitchen and serving together instead of going one at a time as in past seasons.

Hung's three-course plan is Hamachi, a Vietnamese fusion dish with prawns and duck. Casey's is foie gras, giant prawns and pork belly. Dale's is foie gras, lobster and Colorado lamb. They draw knives for sous chef -- Hung gets Rocco DiSpirito (wait, WHAT?), Casey gets Michelle Bernstein and Dale gets Todd English. Yeah, so that's a twist. The sous chefs get to help out for three hours of prep for the first day, but not the second day.

Michelle's not sure about Casey's pork belly course, but she can't tell her that, so she tells the camera instead. She goes on, "I'm a little bit of a minimalist, so every time she adds, I want to subtract."

Todd is also worried that Dale's menu might be too complex, and then they all start to realize that the attitude is wreaking havoc on their menus -- getting a boil is nearly impossible.

Rocco also says he is not totally sure what Hung is doing with everything.

Then all the celebrity chefs start saying nice things about the contestants to the camera as time runs out.

The next day, the chefs are on their own, no celebs, no sous.

Hung creates his own area in the back with camp stoves, and he says when the judges told him his food had no soul, it was like "getting hit by a truck."

Tom visits everyone and then takes them out of the kitchen with one more hour left of prep and tells them they want a fourth course. Dale: "I wanted to punch him in the face." They get help from sous chefs Sara, CJ and Howie. Hung gets Sara, Dale gets CJ and Casey gets Howie.

For the unexpected fourth course, Hung has Sara work up a chocolate cake, Casey gets Howie started on a beef dish and Dale and CJ work on a scallop dish.

At the table are the sous chefs, the judges and Brian Malarkey. They all like all of the first course, except the roe on Casey's dish. For the second course, they adore Dale's extra course and are impressed that he came up with it at the last minute. They're a little worried about the lack of acid in Hung's dish. And for Casey, they best they can come up with is that she is really, really trying -- and she used that same roe again. Eep! On the third course, they love the duck by Hung, and they don't love Dale's gnocchi (a word I never knew until this show) or Casey's porkbelly. Final course, they love Dale's lamb and Casey's sirloin and potatoes and are unsure about Hung's chooclate cake, but only in terms of how it fits with the rest of the dishes -- they love the taste.

Then, judges' table. They say the chefs all rose to the challenge and did a great job. And yet, it's time for the nit-picking. Dale hears about his triumphs (especially the surprise course) and his problems and accepts the criticism. Casey, however, gets crazy defensive, and it's not pretty. Hung hears about how they wanted more acid in the first two dishes -- his third: "three-star Michelin." He's excited, but not as much about the indifferent response to his chocolate cake.

First course, they liked Hung's the best. Second course, they say nothing compared to Dale's scallops. For third, Hung's duck is the favorite. Fourth: "Dale's lamb was fabulous," Gail Simmons says. So, as Survivor host Jeff Probst would say, that's two votes for Dale, two votes for Hung.

Looks like we won't have the first woman winning Top Chef this season. (Though 58 percent of viewers who cared enough to pay to text a vote picked Casey.)

Back at the live show, they really do pull a Survivor and make the judges wear the same clothes -- the chefs are in their jackets, of course. And there is a fake set looking like the club in Aspen.

And the winner is: Hung. Well, hey, he's been telling us he was going to win it from the start. I have to say, I'm not shocked. After Casey's meltdown, it was clear that she was out. And Dale stepped it up at the end, but Hung has been consistently good the entire season. So, go him!

NAccording to eonline Hung Huynh who is 29 years was named the winner of the third season of the latest reality TV show Bravo's Top Chef on Wednesday.

Hung won $100,000 to put toward his culinary-minded dreams, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and an epicurean dream tour of the French Alps.

Hung Huynh lives in Las Vegas but he is originally from Vietnam.

Hung's favorite recipe is heirloom tomatoes, with dashes of balsamic vinegar, basil, mint and extra virgin olive oil with an emphasis on virgin.

His profession is Sous Chef, and more specifically a Guy Savoy.

Hung describes himself as athletic, Buddhist, a college graduate, and chef.




On the season finale of Top Chef 3, Casey Thompson, Dale Levitski, and Hung Huynh faced their final challenge. At the world famous Aspen Mountain Club, the chefs were challenged to cook their best three course meals. In a twist, the chefs had to prepare their dishes in the same kitchen.

Michelle Bernstein, Rocco DiSpirito and Todd English make special guest appearances to serve as sous chefs for the contestants. Todd assisted Dale, Michelle assisted Casey, and Rocco assisted Hung.

To add some additional pressure, head judge Tom Colicchio told the chefs that they had to prepare an additional fourth course. To help the chefs, former contestants CJ, Howie, and Sara returned. CJ helped Dale, Howie helped Casey, and Sara helped Hung.

The Top Chef finale dinner was served to the judges, the sous chefs, and former Top Chef contestant Brian Malarkey. After the meal, the three finalists received feedback from the judges. The judges agreed that two courses went to Hung and two courses went to Dale.

At the live part of the finale, Casey, Dale, and Hung joined host Padma Lakshmi and the judges in Chicago. Padma Lakshmi announced that the winner of Top Chef 3 was Hung Huynh. Hung said "I'm so excited. I worked so hard to get here and to prove myself and to have so much support from America. I'm speechless."
Maybe the folks at Top Chef were concerned that people would find out the winner before the end of the show. Who knows? Anyway, for tonight's finale, the cooking all happened a while ago, but the reveal of the winner will happen live in Chicago.

Final three Casey, Dale and Hung get their breakfast, and it comes with the instruction to take an Aspen ski lift to this mountaintop to get the info on their final challenge, which is at the Aspen Mountain Club.

Tom Colicchio tells them their final challenge is to cook "the best meal you've ever cooked in your life." But they will be cooking in the same kitchen and serving together instead of going one at a time as in past seasons.

Hung's three-course plan is Hamachi, a Vietnamese fusion dish with prawns and duck. Casey's is foie gras, giant prawns and pork belly. Dale's is foie gras, lobster and Colorado lamb. They draw knives for sous chef -- Hung gets Rocco DiSpirito (wait, WHAT?), Casey gets Michelle Bernstein and Dale gets Todd English. Yeah, so that's a twist. The sous chefs get to help out for three hours of prep for the first day, but not the second day.

Michelle's not sure about Casey's pork belly course, but she can't tell her that, so she tells the camera instead. She goes on, "I'm a little bit of a minimalist, so every time she adds, I want to subtract."

Todd is also worried that Dale's menu might be too complex, and then they all start to realize that the attitude is wreaking havoc on their menus -- getting a boil is nearly impossible.

Rocco also says he is not totally sure what Hung is doing with everything.

Then all the celebrity chefs start saying nice things about the contestants to the camera as time runs out.

The next day, the chefs are on their own, no celebs, no sous.

Hung creates his own area in the back with camp stoves, and he says when the judges told him his food had no soul, it was like "getting hit by a truck."

Tom visits everyone and then takes them out of the kitchen with one more hour left of prep and tells them they want a fourth course. Dale: "I wanted to punch him in the face." They get help from sous chefs Sara, CJ and Howie. Hung gets Sara, Dale gets CJ and Casey gets Howie.

For the unexpected fourth course, Hung has Sara work up a chocolate cake, Casey gets Howie started on a beef dish and Dale and CJ work on a scallop dish.

At the table are the sous chefs, the judges and Brian Malarkey. They all like all of the first course, except the roe on Casey's dish. For the second course, they adore Dale's extra course and are impressed that he came up with it at the last minute. They're a little worried about the lack of acid in Hung's dish. And for Casey, they best they can come up with is that she is really, really trying -- and she used that same roe again. Eep! On the third course, they love the duck by Hung, and they don't love Dale's gnocchi (a word I never knew until this show) or Casey's porkbelly. Final course, they love Dale's lamb and Casey's sirloin and potatoes and are unsure about Hung's chooclate cake, but only in terms of how it fits with the rest of the dishes -- they love the taste.

Then, judges' table. They say the chefs all rose to the challenge and did a great job. And yet, it's time for the nit-picking. Dale hears about his triumphs (especially the surprise course) and his problems and accepts the criticism. Casey, however, gets crazy defensive, and it's not pretty. Hung hears about how they wanted more acid in the first two dishes -- his third: "three-star Michelin." He's excited, but not as much about the indifferent response to his chocolate cake.

First course, they liked Hung's the best. Second course, they say nothing compared to Dale's scallops. For third, Hung's duck is the favorite. Fourth: "Dale's lamb was fabulous," Gail Simmons says. So, as Survivor host Jeff Probst would say, that's two votes for Dale, two votes for Hung.

Looks like we won't have the first woman winning Top Chef this season. (Though 58 percent of viewers who cared enough to pay to text a vote picked Casey.)

Back at the live show, they really do pull a Survivor and make the judges wear the same clothes -- the chefs are in their jackets, of course. And there is a fake set looking like the club in Aspen.

And the winner is: Hung. Well, hey, he's been telling us he was going to win it from the start. I have to say, I'm not shocked. After Casey's meltdown, it was clear that she was out. And Dale stepped it up at the end, but Hung has been consistently good the entire season. So, go him!

NAccording to eonline Hung Huynh who is 29 years was named the winner of the third season of the latest reality TV show Bravo's Top Chef on Wednesday.

Hung won $100,000 to put toward his culinary-minded dreams, a feature in Food & Wine magazine, an appearance at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen and an epicurean dream tour of the French Alps.

Hung Huynh lives in Las Vegas but he is originally from Vietnam.

Hung's favorite recipe is heirloom tomatoes, with dashes of balsamic vinegar, basil, mint and extra virgin olive oil with an emphasis on virgin.

His profession is Sous Chef, and more specifically a Guy Savoy.

Hung describes himself as athletic, Buddhist, a college graduate, and chef.